[DAILYCALLER] White House adviser Jared Kushner did not register to vote in his hometown New York City as a female, contrary to breathless reporting on the subject this week.
The idea that Kushner, the son-in-law of President Trump, registered as a woman first came from American Bridge, a Democratic opposition research group founded by activist David Brock.
Citing information provided by American Bridge, the magazine Wired reported on Wednesday that Kushner registered to vote in 2009 as a female.
The story gained traction because Kushner has been involved in a series of paperwork mixups during his short tenure in the White House and also because the Trump administration has led a push against voter fraud.
The former real estate executive has had to correct filings he’s submitted for security clearances on several occasions. The voter registration snafu was cited as the latest in a string of embarrassing errors.
"Kushner can’t even fill out the most basic paperwork without screwing it up, so it’s a mystery why anyone thinks he’s somehow going to bring peace to the Middle East," American Bridge front man Brad Bainum told Wired.
"Would anyone but the president’s son-in-law still have a West Wing job after repeated disclosure errors and a botched a security clearance form?" he continued.
But The New York Daily News threw cold water on the story and the numerous reports that circulated it across the web.
The newspaper obtained a copy of Kushner’s voter registration paperwork from Sept. 1, 2011 which clearly shows that Kushner checked the "Male" box on the form.
American Bridge and Wired relied on an entry in Nexis, a public records database used by news hounds, attorneys and Sherlocks. The entry for Kushner’s 2009 voter registration in New York lists him as "female."
While Nexis is generally reliable, its databases are known to sometimes list incorrect addresses, phone numbers, birth dates and other personal information. Reporters typically use the database for background research purposes.
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Slightly(?) OT. Saw a post Bears game interview of Mr. Aaron Rogers this evening.
He alluded to the "unity" and its predecessor The Knee™ as being a reaction of Washington leadership.
[PJMEDIA] WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has offered to provide evidence that the Russian collusion narrative is false in exchange for a pardon from President Trump.
The president, apparently, has not yet gotten the message. On Saturday, President Trump told news hounds that he has "never heard" of Assange's offer to make a deal.
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher ...Representative for Caliphornia's 48th congressional district, and previously the 46th, 45th and 42nd, serving since 1989. He is a member of the Republican Party and a former speech writer for President Reagan... (R-Calif.) told The Daily Caller that Trump is being blocked from knowing about the potential deal with Assange. "I think the president’s answer indicates that there is a wall around him that is being created by people who do not want to expose this fraud that there was collusion between our intelligence community and the leaders of the Democratic Party," Rohrabacher said.
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And we all know that we can trust and take at face value anything we get from Assange.
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Funny how he doesn't have anything on the Russians or the Chinese or the Germans or the Ukrainians....
#3
Here is what I have:
He disclosed names, locations, project codes, and meetings of sensitive personnel all across the board.
Did not give the US a heads up in this war time material.
Diplomats, CI, no one got any protection from this asshole. He never blacked out names until...
He got many people killed, tortured, and lost.
Pizza Hut
A little Jane Fonda looking for another facelift.
I saw what you did to those IN WAR.
Snowden
Manning
You pederast.
You think this politics ploy will make up for what it is you have done?
Pray to GOD you got no one else killed - it is still ongoing you piece of human shit.. For I have listed this blood on your hands.
I do not know what I want to do with you yet, that is up to the Families of the Lost Souls.
[Independent] The mayor of San Juan issued an emotional "mayday call" for help for the hurricane-stricken island of Puerto Rico, saying "we are dying here" as a pair of Democrats sought an emergency oversight hearing.
"I cannot fathom the thought that the greatest nation in the world cannot figure out logistics for a small island," San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín said during a press conference. "I am asking the President of the United States to make sure somebody is in charge that is up to the task of saving lives," she added, warning that "if we don’t get the food and water into peoples' hands what we are going to see is something close to a genocide".
In a letter to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Rep Elijah Cummings, Democrat of Maryland, and Rep Stacey Plaskett, the US Virgin Islands’ delegate to Congress, sought to convene a hearing to address what they called the slow pace of federal help in the aftermath of successive battering hurricanes.
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determined to make this "Trump's Katrina", cuz these fooking losers have got nuthin' else
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YOU live on the train tracks. You know it is coming some time. Why did YOU not make sure YOU had a rainy day fund? or people that could drive trucks, or cut wood.
Why are you $80 Billion in debts with only Four million people?
You are no Mayor, you are just another liberal democrat harpee. Just like you FIdiot Governor.
You should not be in charge of shit. Now grab YOUR FIdiot Governor and make him give the FEDS permission to take over.
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Word is their port has piles of relief supplies but this Democrat mayor can't seem to coordinate the delivery of those supplies within her own city. Or is letting those sipplies sit on the dock while she does nothing but bitch at Trump.
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"I am asking the President of the United States to make sure somebody is in charge that is up to the task of saving lives,"
Ms Yulin, You are the Mayor, and as such the person in charge of San Juan. You're suppose to be the one taking charge and not whining for someone else to do your job for you!
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I'm told (Uncorroborated) is that she's good little communist. We'll see, as she gets under the magnifying glass, of at least SOME of the media paying attention
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[BOSTONGLOBE] Officials at Cambridge Public Schools are distancing the district from a letter penned by a school librarian rejecting books donated by first lady Melania Trump.
In the blog post, published Tuesday on the Horn Book, Liz Phipps Soeiro, a library media specialist at the district’s Cambridgeport School, began by thanking the first lady for the 10 Dr. Seuss books sent to her school "for its high standards of excellence." But she went on to explain why they would not be keeping the gifted titles.
"Cities like Philadelphia, reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... , and bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... are suffering through expansion, privatization, and school ’choice’ with no interest in outcomes of children, their families, their teachers, and their schools," she wrote. "Are those kids any less deserving of books simply because of circumstances beyond their control? Why not go out of your way to gift books to underfunded and underprivileged communities that continue to be marginalized and maligned by policies put in place by Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos?"
The school district said in a statement that while it supports its employees right to voice their personal opinions, Phipps Soeiro’s letter wasn’t an official school position.
"The opinions expressed in the Horn Book editorial were those of the writer, and not a statement on behalf of Cambridge Public Schools," the school said in Thursday statement. "This was not a formal acceptance or rejection of donated books, but a statement of opinion on the meaning of the donation.
Update at 10:50 a.m. EDT: It gets worse, because there is no memory hole on the internet. The Daily Mail has a round-up of First Lady Michelle Obama reading Dr. Seuss to schoolchildren both at home and abroad to universal acclaim, as well as First Lady Melania Trump reading the author in March... and Ms Soeiro in costume promoting Dr. Seuss earlier this year.
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She says they don't need any more funds/donations for the library. The lifetime of a book in a school library is probably 8 years(?). Apparently her library funds for acquisitions of marxist/SJW propaganda reading materials is OK to cut for that long
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[American Thinker] The Wall Street Journal recently ran pro and con articles on the idea of abolishing cash -- that is, paper currency. If that were done, all transactions would have to be carried out electronically via means such as credit and debit cards or other electronic payment means. The supposed advantage is that it would make it difficult for criminals and the underground economy to carry on their business, because the government would know exactly what they are up to.
Another supposed advantage is that it would make it easier for the government to impose negative interest rates to fight deflation. Negative interest rates means that the government steals some percentage of your bank balance each year. Negative interest rates are difficult to impose if people can hide their money as anonymous currency.
A Puerto Rican commentator on the Wall Street Journal article pointed out that Puerto Ricans without cash were in difficult straits because the failure of the electric grid due to hurricane Maria made it impossible to use credit or debit cards.
The prospect of total and long-term failure of the electric grid due to electromagnetic pulse suggests that everyone should keep $500 or more cash in their house. Electromagnetic pulse, EMP, can result from a natural solar flare, or from the detonation of a single nuclear weapon in near outer space above the USA. The North Koreans have threatened to use EMP against the USA.
The government has already taken some steps to make the use of cash more difficult. The largest U.S. currency is now the $100 bill. Formerly $500 and larger notes were available.
The U.S. $100 bill is a de facto international currency. About $1.1 trillion in $100 dollar bills are in circulation, 75% outside of the U.S. Citizens of countries with unstable money often keep savings in $100 bills, out of sight of their governments. This money is an interest-free loan to the U.S. government. If the $100 bill is recalled, the loan would have to be paid off. When I traveled to South America in the 1970s with $100 bills, I was able to obtain favorable exchange rates from citizens of various countries eager to hoard $100 bills. The U.S. government is already profiting from the international underground economy.
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I know a person who travels to S. America often. People ask her to bring the latest US currency they keep in reserve so they can exchange older versions with new ones. She can make a little money on these trips doing so. When she returns to the US she has no problem depositing the older currency to replenish what she withdrew for the trip. She is originally from S. America so she has special empathy for those who value US currency.
To go all cashless would do great harm to the value of the dollar to the rest of the world.
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Another example of living in the urban cosmopolitan bubble. Taking electrical power for granted.
They throw the light switch on when they enter a room and never contemplate all that goes into making the 'magic' happen. Same for magic EBT cards.
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Would owning precious metals also become illegal? Watch personal property taxes increase as well as cash leaves money markets to pay down mortgages and auto loans. I value liquidity.
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Given the Obama Regime's illegal and unethical crack on banking for selected "Undesirable but legal" industries, why would you put your faith in an electronic balance that they could "lose" whenever they wanted?
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I'm so sick of reading/hearing that this cashless "push" is to combat drug lords (a-hem, Wachovia/Wells Fargo) and terrorists.
Imagine that each and every purchase in a cashless "society" could then be tracked. Imagine that you might also be forbidden to purchase certain things.
It's a sick idea of a sick [central] banking system.
[The Hill] A day after the GOP presented a united front around the rollout of President Trump’s tax plan, House Republicans are expressing deep reservations about the Senate’s ability to get the job done.
Lawmakers stung over the failure to pass ObamaCare repeal worry the same fate could befall the tax measure if a handful of senators raise objections.
"Donald Trump won with an electoral landside and his three big campaign points were ObamaCare repeal, tax reform and border security. For a handful of senators to derail that agenda is very frustrating," said Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-Texas).
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"Donald Trump won with an electoral landside and his three big campaign points were ObamaCare repeal, tax reform and border security.
Rep. Ferenthold simply doesn't understand. 'K-Street' and the Swamp know what's best for us. Besides, the dems and Never-Trump crowd cannot afford to have a spiking economy and record GDP growth going into an election year.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] The White House's tax plan proposes to raise $1 trillion over 10 years by eliminating the deduction for the state and local income taxes people pay
That's drawing howls of protest from Republicans whose states charge high income tax rates
Seven states have no income taxes, meaning their citizens wouldn't be affected
But some states charge up to 13.3 per cent on top of federal taxes
A family in Los Angeles earning $100,000 would have to fork over roughly an additional $1,800 to Washington if the longstanding deduction goes away
Trump is pitching his tax plan to the National Association of Manufacturers on Friday
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I am absolutely in favor of the corporate profits repatriation tax reduction. American corps. with overseas profits are incentivised, owing to punitive taxes, to leave them out of the country and, unless the CFO's are Scrooge McDucks, they are investing in Property, Plant and Equipment (-> Jobs) overseas.
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House 'Pubs have had months to come up with their own plan, if they were so inclined. This is bullshit, like they want to lose in 2018 just to spite Trump.
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If Trump has success with his tax proposal, the market will indeed take off like rocket. This week's announcement of a GDP increase to 3.1 (the best in nearly a decade), will be followed by 4.0 or better. Should this happen, support for President Trump will be truly galvanized.
I cannot imagine the beltway party permitting this to happen.
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The party out of power should be drafting laws and plans so that when the day comes that they are in power they just need to polish and update and push through that law or plan.
Republicans in power twiddled their thumbs instead.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[DAILYCALLER] White House adviser Jared Kushner did not register to vote in his hometown New York City as a female, contrary to breathless reporting on the subject this week.
[Independent] The mayor of San Juan issued an emotional "mayday call" for help for the hurricane-stricken island of Puerto Rico, saying "we are dying here" as a pair of Democrats sought an emergency oversight hearing.
[American Thinker] The Wall Street Journal recently ran pro and con articles on the idea of abolishing cash -- that is, paper currency. If that were done, all transactions would have to be carried out electronically via means such as credit and debit cards or other electronic payment means. The supposed advantage is that it would make it difficult for criminals and the underground economy to carry on their business, because the government would know exactly what they are up to.
[The Hill] A day after the GOP presented a united front around the rollout of President Trump’s tax plan, House Republicans are expressing deep reservations about the Senate’s ability to get the job done.
